Posted on 09/07/2013 7:05:47 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Oh, how I long for the days when liberals wailed that "the rest of the world" hated America, rather than now, when the rest of the world laughs at us.
With the vast majority of Americans opposing a strike against Syria, President Obama has requested that Congress vote on his powers as commander in chief under the Constitution. The president doesn't need congressional approval to shoot a few missiles into Syria, nor -- amazingly -- has he said he'll abide by such a vote, anyway.
Why is Congress even having a vote? This is nothing but a fig leaf to cover Obama's own idiotic "red line" ultimatum to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on chemical weapons. The Nobel Peace Prize winner needs to get Congress on the record so that whatever happens, the media can blame Republicans.
No Republican who thinks seriously about America's national security interests -- by which I mean to exclude John McCain and Lindsey Graham -- can support Obama's "plan" to shoot blindly into this hornet's nest.
It would be completely different if we knew with absolute certainty that Assad was responsible for chemical attacks on his own people. (I'm still waiting to see if it was a Syrian upset about a YouTube video.)
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
No it weren't be, we have no national interests in Syria.
I wonder if Chris Christie is supporting his friend Obama.
EXACTLY!
FUBO
FUCONgress
he’s either a political idiot or conspiring with the rebels to start a war by gassing civilians... though the two are not mutually exclusive
She isn’t making the case that the Syrian strike would be then justifiable, only that the reasons for considering one would be different.
Her entire thesis seems to be comparing Assad with Saddam Hussein, and showing how the Saddam regime did things hundreds of times WORSE than Assad, yet the media and the Demonrats (but I repeat myself) were the first to scream like little girls when it was time to fight Saddam.
I agree, but the fact is the only reason the U.S. should be using it’s military is due to a national threat.
Cutie-Pie Annie is having another “blond” moment: she has fallen hook-line-and-sinker for Obama’s red herring of Military action against Syria.
Military action against a non-enemy is just what Obama needs to distract Congress away from defunding Obama”care.”
Military action will generate a lot of discussion and posturing for at least a month, as well as boosting morale of the goose-steppers in Congress who support Obama, no matter what he says or does.
Obama speaks for Obama, Annie.
Obama does not speak for the US Federal Government, or America.
Wake up Annie, as October 1 is so important for Obama”care” that Obama is willing to bomb Syria to save it from being defunded.
REMEMBER BENGHAZI!
No blood for face.
Good to see Ann returning to some semblance of the old Ann in recent columns.
She still has a way to go, though, beginning with her complete disavowal of that disgusting pig Pork Porkie.
Community Instigator is more like it.
She's really a brunette, so the 'moment" may be Maybelline
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